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csaftoiu / yahoo-groups-backup

A python script to backup the contents of private Yahoo! groups.
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selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: crashed (unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist) (The process started from chrome location /usr/bin/google-chrome is no longer running, so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed.) #58

Open wizardzen opened 4 years ago

wizardzen commented 4 years ago

Spent hours and just cannot get pass this error.

wizardzen@John-PC:~/yahoo-groups-backup$ python3 yahoo-groups-backup.py scrape_messages --driver chrome mustardseedcommunity Using '--login' from config file Using '--password' from config file Traceback (most recent call last): File "yahoo-groups-backup.py", line 129, in main() File "yahoo-groups-backup.py", line 125, in main arguments, cfg_args) File "yahoo-groups-backup.py", line 103, in invoke_subcommand return module.command(args) File "/home/wizardzen/yahoo-groups-backup/yahoo_groups_backup/subcommands/scrape_messages.py", line 32, in command arguments['--password']) File "/home/wizardzen/yahoo-groups-backup/yahoo_groups_backup/scraper.py", line 29, in init self.br = splinter.Browser(driver) File "/home/wizardzen/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/splinter/browser.py", line 63, in Browser return driver(*args, kwargs) File "/home/wizardzen/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/splinter/driver/webdriver/chrome.py", line 28, in init self.driver = Chrome(chrome_options=options, kwargs) File "/home/wizardzen/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py", line 81, in init desired_capabilities=desired_capabilities) File "/home/wizardzen/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 157, in init self.start_session(capabilities, browser_profile) File "/home/wizardzen/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 252, in start_session response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, parameters) File "/home/wizardzen/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 321, in execute self.error_handler.check_response(response) File "/home/wizardzen/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace) selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: crashed (unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist) (The process started from chrome location /usr/bin/google-chrome is no longer running, so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed.)

Exception ignored in: <bound method YahooBackupScraper.del of <yahoo_groups_backup.scraper.YahooBackupScraper object at 0x7fcbd3194e48>> Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/wizardzen/yahoo-groups-backup/yahoo_groups_backup/scraper.py", line 32, in del self.br.quit() AttributeError: 'YahooBackupScraper' object has no attribute 'br'

hrenfroe commented 4 years ago

That's an issue with your local Chromedriver installation -- which, unfortunately, I don't know how to fix. I'm fighting with that one myself on a different project. Update if you find out what it is?